Talk:George Frideric Handel

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2A02:C7C:AEDC:8800:A92A:805:83E6:5A3F (talk) 19:48, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I was reading this article but I think the dates are not correct. Handel was born and married and Anna died. Anna died before Handel was born? Thank you.

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Anna was the first wife of Georg Händel, father of George Frideric Handel. George Frideric was born to Georg's second wife. I hope that clears up your confusion (I agree that the article is a bit confusing). Day Creature (talk) 21:58, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Handel can't have been German-British. He went to Britain when he was already 25 years old, and he did not speak English neither as first language nor fluently. A German-speaker who emigrates to Britain when he is 25 years old, can't be British. There are almost no famous British composers, and that's why the Brits want to grab some of Handel's fame. Correctly, it would have to read in the opening paragraph: "German-born" or "German-born, naturalized British", or "German, naturalized British" composer. "German-British" implies that he was half German and half British, in any case it exaggerates the British element. Jakob-0404 (talk) 10:57, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Except it is about nationality on Wikipedia. That's why Nikola Tesla is listed as a Serbian-American, Enrico Fermi as Italian-American, and Wernher von Braun as German American, and so on. It's why it doesn't say Italian despite Italian culture adding so much to his musical style that he wouldn't have got staying Germany. There are some British composers known to anyone who takes more than an dilettante interest in music: John Dunstaple, John Taverner, Thomas Morley, Thomas Campion, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons, William Lawes, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Sir William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Harrison Birtwistle, John Tavener, James MacMillan, Thomas Adès. 'Almost no' is as ill-informed as saying Americans have been around since 1619 and there are no famous American classical composers. Burraron (talk) 12:13, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

See Handel's Naturalisation Act 1727 , which rather settles the matter! Johnbod (talk) 13:03, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

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Please flag reference number 139 as needing checking/correction. The publication date according to the DOI (available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/eighteenth-century-music/article/abs/solomon-susanna-and-moses-locating-handels-lost-librettist/CDF79FF15BF87ECA9EC88B4BB586FC1A) is September 2015, but in the Wikipedia reference it says that the source was accessed in October 2014 (i.e. before it was published). AderynOrDe (talk) 09:27, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Done. I accessed it today, so I've used today's date. Masato.harada (talk) 10:47, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Many thanks! AderynOrDe (talk) 11:13, 21 January 2026 (UTC)